Genesis 2

Revised Geneva Translation

2 Thus the heavens and the Earth were finished, and all the host of them.

² For on the seventh day, God ended His work which He had made. And the seventh day, He rested from all His work which He had made.

³ So God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because on it, He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

⁴ These are the generations of the heavens and of the Earth - when they were created, on the day that the LORD God made the Earth and the heavens -

⁵ and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth; and every plant of the field, before it grew. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, nor was there a man to till the ground,

⁶ But a mist went up from the Earth; and watered all the Earth.

⁷ The LORD God also made the man from the dust of the ground and breathed in his face breath of life. And the man was a living soul.

⁸ And the LORD God planted a garden, eastward in Eden. And there He put the man whom He had made.

⁹ For out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the Tree of Life also in the midst of the garden and the Tree of Knowledge (of good and of evil).

¹⁰ And out of Eden went a river to water the garden. And from there it was divided and became four heads.

¹¹ The name of the first, Pishon. The same runs through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

¹² And the gold of that land is good. There is bdellium and the onyx stone.

¹³ And the name of the second river, Gihon. The same runs through the whole land of Cush.

¹⁴ And the name of the third river, Hiddekel. This goes toward the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden, so that he might dress it and keep it.

¹⁶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You shall eat freely from every tree of the garden.

¹⁷ “But from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For on the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die.”

¹⁸ Also the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a perfect mate for him.”

¹⁹ So the LORD God formed from the earth every wild animal, and every bird of the sky; and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. For whatever the man named the living creature, so was its name.

²⁰ Therefore, the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal. But Adam found no perfect mate for himself.

²¹ Therefore, the LORD God caused a heavy sleep to fall upon the man. And he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

²² And with the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man, he made a woman. And he brought her to the man.

²³ Then the man said, “This, now, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called ‘woman’, because she was taken out of the man.

²⁴ “Therefore, man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife. And they shall be one flesh.”

²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife. And they were not ashamed.